Name details

Medvecky Peaks

Medvecky Peaks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Medvecky Peaks  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1996

Feature type: Peak

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A group of peaks rising from the north-west part of Loewe Massif, in the eastern part of the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. Named after A. Medvecky, geologist with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey in 1969.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
70° 32' 55.0" S
-70.54861°
Accurate to 100m
Longitude:
67° 35' 20.4" E
67.58900°
Accurate to 100m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Georeferenced Satellite Image
Source Name:
SPOT 5 11 January 2004
Source Identifier:
Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id sp5xi10_265498_110104_ortho.bil not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )
Source Scale:
1:15000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
CNES
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
18-May-1971

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